Rossitsa Gradeva, Persons, Practices, and Institutions: Individual Lives and the Fabric of the Ottoman World. Introduction I. Viziers, Lawyers, Teachers, and Sufis. Tijana Krstić, A Catechizing Grand Vizier—Lütfi Pasha (d. 1562/63) and the Politics of Sunni Confession Building in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. Antonis Anastasopoulos & Marinos Sariyannis, Serdarzade Mehmed Efendi: a naib of many capacities in late-seventeenth-century Kandiye. Tatjana Paić-Vukić, Salih Mufti-zade of the Bosnian Town of Travnik: A Life Revealed by a Personal Notebook. Margarita Dobreva, The Rüşdiyye Mission, Curriculum and Teachers (1850s – 1870s). Nevena Gramatikova, Muhyiddin Abdal – A Spiritual Preacher of the Alevi-Bektaşi Community in the Eastern Balkans under the Ottomans. Aziz Nazmi Shakir, Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi: An Ottoman Author’s Life and Depths of Imagination as Reached in His Sufi Masterpiece A‘mâq-ı Khayâl.II. Waqfs and Donors. Kayhan Orbay and Özge Aslanmirza, Institutional Propagation of Imperial Waqfs in the Rural Balkans, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Milena Petkova, Christians among Muslims: Еthno-demographic Structure of the Sultan Waqf Villages of Hristene and Kortene in Eastern Upper Thrace, Fifteenth – Seventeenth Centuries. Paulina Andonova, Faith and Wealth: Sofu Mehmed Paşa as a Waqf Donor in Sofia, sixteenth to early nineteenth century. Maria Shusharova, The Waqf of Yedekçi Mehmed Paşa in the District of Hezargrad (Eighteenth Century) – between Piety and Abuse. Stoyanka Kenderova, Le Personnage du Donateur de Livres à la Bibliothèque d’Osman Pazvantoğlu à Vidin. Svetla Ianeva, The Nineteenth-Century Rumelian Orthodox Tax-Farmer as Donor. III. Priests and Monks, Converts to Islam and Neomartyrs. Stefka Parveva, Economic Aspects of the Portrait of the Seventeenth-Century Rumelian Village Priest. Ognjen Krešić, An Eighteenth-Century Orthodox Monk in the Ottoman Balkans: The Monks of the Hilandar Monastery. Vjeran Kursar, Personality of a Bosnian Franciscan: Life and Work of Bonaventura (Bono) Benić (1708-1785). Phokion Kotzageorgis, Becoming Rich in a Monastery: The Case of Anthimos Komninos (end of eighteenth - beginning of nineteenth century). Stefan Dimitrov, Integration of the Converts within the Social and Professional Structure of the Muslim Community in Sixteenth-century Edirne. †Olga Todorova  “Virgin in a Dungeon”: Female Neomartyrdom under Ottoman Rule – Historical Realia, Literary and Folklore Fictions (The Case of St Zlata of Meglen).